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These Terms of Use were issued in January 2018.

YOUR DATA AND PRIVACY

UXswitch collects information about you and uses this information to help you connect with direct employers and professional recruiters, with the ultimate aim of getting you a better employment opportunity. We collect the personal information you choose to provide us i.e. name, LinkedIn profile, portfolio link, specialisms, freelance/permanent preference, client side/agency side preference, salary expectations, location preferences, current location, work preferences, previous employers and who you wish to be hidden from. We endavour to only let good quality direct employers and professional recruiters use the site that is, those with an understanding of UX and involvement in the UX community, who treat UXers with integrity and those who hold high quality and quantity of UX roles.

We receive other anonymised non-personal information about you from Google Analytics, which includes demographic information. We may also acquire information about you from third parties to further personalise and enhance your experience.

We use the information we collect about you to deliver the products and services we offer, respond to you, and operate and improve our sites and applications. We may use your information to contact you about UXswitch updates, conduct surveys, offer relevant products or to provide informational and service-related communications, including important security updates. You can opt out of these communications. We strive to provide a safe, secure environment by attempting to limit access to our database to legitimate users, but we cannot guarantee that unauthorised parties will not gain access. We also cannot control how authorised users store or transfer information you give to us, so you should not post sensitive information to UXswitch.

We may share your information with third parties who help us deliver our products and services to you. These third parties may not use your information for any other purpose. We may use your information to contact you about products or services available from our affiliates. We may disclose your information to third parties who may contact you about their products or services. We will share information where legally required. We may disclose and transfer information to a third party who acquires any or all of our business units. We may sell the UXswitch or related business in the future which means your account and the information provided by you therein will be transferred to the new legal owners of the business.

We store your information to make your interaction with UXswitch more efficient, practical, and relevant. You may review, update, or delete the personal information you share with us at any time by accessing your account. You can change your profile visibility and whether or not you receive job alerts. Both are on by default, log in to your account to change this preference. When you delete your personal information, we will retain logs and non-personal information about you along with an archival copy of your information, which is not accessible by you or third parties on the Internet. You can ask us to delete your account by contacting us. If your personal information was previously accessed by others using UXswitch, we are unable to delete the information from their systems. You may also turn off cookies. This will adversely affect your use of UXswitch.

UXswitch might use cookies to improve your experience on this site. We’d like to let you know a few things about our cookies. Certain cookies are essential to the proper function of this site. We don’t track your personal activities when you’re not on UXswitch sites unless you click on one of our ads on those sites. We use analytics cookies to help us understand what content is most useful to our visitors. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being set, or you can choose to turn off or block all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser’s Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.

Terms and Conditions

This page states the Terms of Use for UXswitch.com. They are deemed accepted by you when you use the site or ancillary services. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site or related UXswitch services. UXswitch may revise these Terms at any time. Visit this page periodically to review the most current updates. Users who violate these Terms of use may have their access and use of the UXswitch suspended or terminated, at UXswitch’s discretion. The contents of the UXswitch site, such as text, graphics, images, video are protected under copyright, trademark and other laws. They are property of UXswitch and you may use them for non-commercial purposes, unauthorized use is prohibited.

The site, the candidate profile database and job board are only to be used to help find employment or for networking purposes. Please ensure that the information you get from the candidate is protected from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. Do not share this information for any other purpose or with others in breach of local laws or UXswitch privacy policy. If the candidate has their availability switched to the OFF state, refrain from contacting them unnecessarily. Do not use data mining or other information extracting software or methods to glean information from UXswitch. Your login is for you, do not share, rent or sell your website credentials with anyone else. Do not attempt to violate the security or efficient running of the UXswitch website. Signing up the the service means that we are permitted to state publicly (in text and/or with the aid of visual queues) that your employer or the organisation you represent uses our services. You can ask us to remove any such reference in writing and we will comply to the best of our abilities.

Do not post any content or material that promotes or endorses false or misleading information or illegal activities. Do not post any incomplete, false or inaccurate biographical information or information which is not your own.Do not post any inaccurate, false, copyrighted or illegal information as part of a job description. Do not create more than one profile. Do not access data not intended for you. Do not harass or send irrelevant content or requests to any group, company, or individual whose details you find on the site. Do not use information you find on the site to breach copyright or other laws. Do not submit information to the site that is defamatory, libelous, implicitly or explicitly offensive, vulgar, obscene, threatening, abusive, hateful, racist, discriminatory, of a menacing character or likely to cause annoyance, inconvenience, embarrassment, anxiety or could cause harassment to any person or include any links to pornographic, indecent or sexually explicit material of any kind, as determined by UXswitch’s discretion. Do not post material advocating any particular religion or political view points.

Do not post information that is intended to advertise or promote products or services. Violations might result in civil and/or criminal liability. Uxswitch will pursue such where appropriate. UXswitch cannot vouch for the truth or accuracy of any of the information on the site. UXswitch has no control over the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or timeliness of the profiles or user generated content submitted on the site or links to third party sites. You assume all risks associated with dealing with other users with whom you come in contact through UXswitch so please use common sense in dealing with that information or the people you contact via the site. UXswitch denies all liability for such.

Maintain the confidentiality of your own account, profile and passwords. Do not share your password or other account access information with any other party.

UXswitch is not to be considered to be an employment service provider, employer or recruiter. It is not involved in any transaction between employers and candidates. It is a network to connect candidates with recruiters or employers. UXswitch has no influence on the employment decisions of the latter. If you delete your account all information that had previously been submitted to UXswitch will be deleted from our servers. Third parties may retain saved copies of Your Information.

UXswitch reserves the right to remove any information that is submitted that contravenes the above terms of use or is inactive for a significant duration. UXswitch reserves the right to delete the accounts of the offending parties. If you use a mobile phone, you agree that information about your use of the UXswitch may be communicated to us such as your location and device model.

UXswitch claims no ownership or control over any user generated content. UXswitch does not represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of user generated content, or endorse any opinions expressed by users. Reliance on material posted by users will be at your own risk. By submitting content or making any suggestions about the design of the site, UXswitch is granted a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable license to use, reproduce, adapt, distribute and publish such user generated content via UXswitch. You are responsible for accessing content that is legal to access in your own region. If you believe that your copyright or trademark has been infringed, please contact UXswitch.

The UXswitch site is not bullet proof from a security or operational point of view nor around the legality or accuracy of information on the site. UXswitch is not responsible for any losses or damages incurred from the latter. Liability is limited to £1. These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales. Jurisdiction for any claims arising under this agreement shall lie exclusively with the English courts.